YELLOWSTONE Star Dishes on Series Finale: ‘Starts High and Ends Higher’
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Actor Luke Grimes is reflecting on his “satisfying” time on YELLOWSTONE ahead of the release of its final episodes.
“I just say don’t look away, buckle up. It’s really fast, it’s only six episodes, and a lot happens. It starts high and ends higher,” said Grimes, who plays Kayce Dutton in the series.
The show’s final episodes began to release on Paramount Network on Nov. 10.
“I think you know anytime you’ve spent a lot of time with a show, you want the ending to sort of wrap everything up in a way that satisfies you and makes you feel like you didn’t waste your time. I feel like that’s what this finale does,” the actor shared.
YELLOWSTONE filmed in Montana where Grimes homesteaded with his wife for the last four years.
“My wife is from Brazil. I’m from Ohio. There was going to be nowhere that we lived that felt like home to both of us at the same time, so we had to find that and we found that in Montana,” he said.
Recently, he’s enjoying his time as a new dad to a six-week-old baby boy.
It’s “sleepless, but awesome,” he said. “He’s changed our lives in a big way.”
Grimes looks back on YELLOWSTONE as a “satisfying” and “epic” time.
“It was just a great group to begin with. It’s a great project,” Grimes said. “It ended up becoming this big huge cultural thing that we were all a part of, and we shot it for seven years in a beautiful place. It was just, all of the elements were there.”
“I’m going to miss a lot of these people…We all worked really hard on this and we’re very proud of it,” he told The Hollywood Reporter.
Grimes believes Kevin Costner’s exit from the show sealed its ending.
“Him not coming back felt like, ‘Okay, we’re going to have to land this plane now for real,'” Grimes told PEOPLE. “I think the patriarch leaving was always going to be part of the story. That’s always where it was headed is like, what do these kids do? What does this family do when their rock is gone?”
“Whatever the circumstances may be, [it] definitely felt like, ‘Okay, we’re coming in for a landing,'” he said. “It definitely felt different.
As Grimes time on the show comes to an end, it makes room for his other love — singing. He just released his first country album.
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“I think it’s the same reason I like films and television, is stories. I think songs are sort of mini stories, and country music especially, the lyrics really mean something, and they’ve always helped me sort of get through my own life.”
